Vote-buying is pervasive, but not everywhere. What explains significant variations across countries in the greater use of pre-electoral transfers to mobilize voters relative to the use of pre-electoral promises of post-electoral transfers? This paper explicitly models the trade-offs that politicians incur when they decide between mobilizing support with vote-buying or promises of post-electoral benefits. Politicians rely more on vote-buying when they...
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2013/10/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS6653
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2013/10/01
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Promises, promises : vote-buying and the electoral mobilization strategies of non-credible politicians
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differences in purchasing power parity